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Volunteers At Wash. Farms Gleaning The Fall Harvest To Fight Hunger, Food Waste Gleaning is an ancient word for a practice that dates back to Biblical times. Farmers allowed peasants to take leftover crops after the harvest was...Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:01:00 -0400http://kplu.org/post/volunteers-wash-farms-gleaning-fall-harvest-fight-hunger-food-waste
http://kplu.org/post/volunteers-wash-farms-gleaning-fall-harvest-fight-hunger-food-waste Gleaning is an ancient word for a practice that dates back to Biblical times. Farmers allowed peasants to take leftover crops after the harvest was...144no Gleaning is an ancient word for a practice that dates back to Biblical times. Farmers allowed peasants to take leftover crops after the harvest was...

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]]>Recession drives up hunger in Washington<p>The recession has brought a major spike in the number of <a href="http://childrensalliance.org/sites/default/files/Hungry_in_Washington_2012.pdf">Washington families who experience hunger</a>, according to data from advocates and federal officials. Hunger has gone up all over the country, but <a href="http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/884525/err141.pdf">the U.S. Department of Agriculture finds </a>that Washington has fared worse than the country overall.</p><p>Between 2008 and 2011, the state went from significantly below then national average to well above it. Over the last three years, an average 15.4 percent of households here have been “food insecure.”</p><p>Shelley Rotondo of <a href="http://www.northwestharvest.org/">Northwest Harvest </a>said she’s seeing that firsthand.</p><blockquote><p>“We’ve never had this much pressure on our emergency hunger response system as we’re currently seeing,” Rotondo said.</p></blockquote><p>Northwest Harvest supplies food banks all over Washington, and runs its own in downtown Seattle. Rotondo said it seems like the aftermath of the recession is exhausting whatever resources struggling families have left.</p><blockquote><p>“They used up their unemployment. They’ve used up their savings. Maybe they’ve accessed their retirement early and they’ve used that up as well. And so some folks have held on for the last two, three years, but can no more,” she said.</p></blockquote><p>That’s ensnared not just the very poor, but plenty of working people. Stand around at one of their food banks long enough, Rotondo said, and you’ll see yourself walk through the door.</p>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:42:44 -0400http://www.kplu.org/post/recession-drives-hunger-washington
http://www.kplu.org/post/recession-drives-hunger-washington<p>The recession has brought a major spike in the number of <a href="http://childrensalliance.org/sites/default/files/Hungry_in_Washington_2012.pdf">Washington families who experience hunger</a>, according to data from advocates and federal officials. Hunger has gone up all over the country, but <a href="http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/884525/err141.pdf">the U.S. Department of Agriculture finds </a>that Washington has fared worse than the country overall.</p><p>Between 2008 and 2011, the state went from significantly below then national average to well above it. Over the last three years, an average 15.4 percent of households here have been “food insecure.”</p><p>Shelley Rotondo of <a href="http://www.northwestharvest.org/">Northwest Harvest </a>said she’s seeing that firsthand.</p><blockquote><p>“We’ve never had this much pressure on our emergency hunger response system as we’re currently seeing,” Rotondo said.</p></blockquote><p>Northwest Harvest supplies food banks all over Washington, and runs its own in downtown Seattle. Rotondo said it seems like the aftermath of the recession is exhausting whatever resources struggling families have left.</p><blockquote><p>“They used up their unemployment. They’ve used up their savings. Maybe they’ve accessed their retirement early and they’ve used that up as well. And so some folks have held on for the last two, three years, but can no more,” she said.</p></blockquote><p>That’s ensnared not just the very poor, but plenty of working people. Stand around at one of their food banks long enough, Rotondo said, and you’ll see yourself walk through the door.</p>66no

“We’ve never had this much pressure on our emergency hunger response system as we’re currently seeing,” Rotondo said.

Northwest Harvest supplies food banks all over Washington, and runs its own in downtown Seattle. Rotondo said it seems like the aftermath of the recession is exhausting whatever resources struggling families have left.

“They used up their unemployment. They’ve used up their savings. Maybe they’ve accessed their retirement early and they’ve used that up as well. And so some folks have held on for the last two, three years, but can no more,” she said.

That’s ensnared not just the very poor, but plenty of working people. Stand around at one of their food banks long enough, Rotondo said, and you’ll see yourself walk through the door.